Improvement in corpse-preservers



B. WILSON.

Corpse Preserver.

No. 40,529. Patented Nov. 3, 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BURTON WILSON OF MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORPSEPRESERVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 40,529, dated November 3, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BURTON WILsoN, of Morristown, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Oorpse-Preserver; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a plan or top View of the body-chamben the ice box having been removed in order to expose the air-channels. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference in both views indicate corresponding parts.

This invention is intended as an improvement on that class of corpsepreservers on which Letters Patent'were granted to Lewis D. Bunn October 28, 1862.

The invention consists in the arrangement of a double air-channel, one surrounding the other and communicating with each other through a series of holes, both air-channels passing around the body-chamber 011 all sides except the front, in combination with an airpassage admitting air from the outside to the ice-box, and through holes in the sides of the ice-box to the air-channels, in such a manner that a continuous circulation of cold air is effected around the body-chamber, and the temperature in the interior of said chamber can be brought down to and kept at a low degree with little trouble and with a comparative small expenditure of ice.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A represents the body-chamber, which is made of wood or of sheet metal, or of both combined, or of any other suitable material. It is made of two or more parts, which are connected by hooks catching in corresponding sockets, or by any other suitable means, so that they can be easily taken apart to facilitate the operation of moving the apparatus up or down narrow stairs, and of putting the same up in narrow rooms.

The body-chamber is surrounded on all sides except the front by a double air-channel, B B, the channel B being on the inside of the channel B, and communicating with Both channels B B terminate in the chan-.

nel O, which surrounds the ice-box D. This box is situated over the front part of the bodychamber, and it communicates with surrounding channel 0 through holes b in its sides. Pipes 0 serve to draw off the ice-water. The ice is introduced into the ice-box through an aperture, 01, in its top, which is covered up by a lid or cover, 6, fitting tight into the said aperture. A pipe, j, admits air to the interior of the ice-box, and the air thus admitted is cooled by coming in contact with the ice, and it now circulates all around the bodychamber through the air channels B B.

The body is placed on the cooling-board E, which may be made flat or with a projecting rim or flange to prevent the body rolling oft by some accident. This cooling-board is introduced into the body-chamber through openin g g in front, which can be closed by a slide, F. This slide is made to fit as tight as possible to exclude the air, and after the cooling-board with the body have been introduced into the body-chamber, the slide is closed and not disturbed, except if it should be desired to look at the features ofthe deceased or to take out the cooling-board with the body.

By the arrangement of thedouble air-cliannels B B extending round the body-chamber the influence of the external air on theinterior of said chamber is perfectly precluded, and the temperature in the same can be brought to such a low degree that the body of a deceased person can be preserved for several days, and even for a week in the hot season.

What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of a double air-channel, B B, the channel B surrounding the channel B, and communicating with it through a series of holes, a, and both channels surrounding the body-chamber, in combination with an air-passage. 7, leading to the ice-box D, and

through holes in the sides of the ice-box and channel 0 to the air-channels B B, all as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

BURTON WILSON. Witnesses:

JOHN Ansonnu, S. S. WEIR. 

